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Developmental Psychology

How humans change across the lifespan: the grand theories, prenatal beginnings, cognitive and language growth, attachment and moral development, and the passage through adolescence, adulthood, and aging.

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  1. 1Study each lesson12 lessons, each with its own quiz
  2. 2Section practice test35 sets over the whole subject
  3. 3Prove it on the mockTimed, scored like the real exam

What this subject covers

  • Foundations, grand theories, issues, and research methods in lifespan development
  • Prenatal development, heredity and environment, and the newborn
  • Physical and brain development across infancy, childhood, and the lifespan
  • Cognitive development: Piaget, Vygotsky, and the information-processing view
  • Language development and moral development (Kohlberg and Gilligan)
  • Social and emotional development: attachment, temperament, and Erikson’s psychosocial stages
  • Adolescence, emerging and middle adulthood, late adulthood and aging, and death and dying

Study lessons

  1. 1

    Foundations, Theories, and Research MethodsFree

    The debates, grand theories, and research designs that frame every developmental item on the board, from Freud to Bronfenbrenner to cohort effects.

    15 min
  2. 2

    Genetics, Prenatal Development, and the NewbornFree

    How genes become traits, how nine months turn a single cell into a newborn, and how teratogens and APGAR scoring make or break that journey.

    15 min
  3. 3

    Physical, Brain, and Motor DevelopmentFree

    How the body follows fixed growth directions, how neurons wire and prune themselves into a working brain, and how infants see, move, and grow into childhood.

    15 min
  4. 4

    Piaget's Theory of Cognitive DevelopmentFree

    How a child's thinking is built and rebuilt through four stages, from an infant's object permanence to a teenager's hypothetical reasoning, and why the board loves to test the gap between them.

    15 min
  5. 5

    Vygotsky and the Information-Processing ViewFree

    How culture and language build the mind in Vygotsky's theory, and how attention, memory stores, and metacognition build it in the information-processing view.

    15 min
  6. 6

    Language DevelopmentFree

    How children build sound, meaning, and grammar from cooing to fluent sentences, and the Chomsky-versus-Skinner debate the board always tests.

    15 min
  7. 7

    Moral DevelopmentFree

    How children and adults reason about right and wrong, from Piaget's two moralities through Kohlberg's six stages to Gilligan's ethic of care.

    15 min
  8. 8

    Attachment and TemperamentFree

    How Bowlby, Ainsworth, Harlow, and Lorenz explain the infant-caregiver bond, and how Thomas and Chess show why the same parenting fits some children better than others.

    15 min
  9. 9

    Erikson's Psychosocial StagesFree

    Eight psychosocial crises, from an infant's first taste of trust to an elder's final reckoning with a life lived, and the exact virtue the board expects you to name at each one.

    15 min
  10. 10

    Social, Emotional, and Family DevelopmentFree

    How children learn to feel, play, befriend, and become gendered selves inside Baumrind's parenting styles and Bronfenbrenner's nested family systems.

    15 min
  11. 11

    AdolescenceFree

    How puberty, new abstract reasoning, Marcia's identity statuses, and shifting peer and family ties combine to explain why adolescents think, bond, and risk the way they do.

    15 min
  12. 12

    Adulthood, Aging, Death, and DyingFree

    How Levinson's seasons, Erikson's generativity, crystallized versus fluid intelligence, and Kubler-Ross's stages of dying map the second half of the lifespan the board tests hardest.

    15 min

Section practice test

35 test sets covering the whole Developmental Psychology section, 1400 original questions with explanations. After you finish the lessons above, prove it here. Randomized every run.

Developmental Psychology: Foundations, Grand Theories, and Research Methods (section test)

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Grand Theories Overview

Which pairing of grand theory and its primary emphasis is CORRECT?